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Top Deceased Economists, as of August 2026

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  • 1230 deceased authors have been identified, about 1.66% of all authors
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1Alberto Alesina †3.60
2Gary S. Becker †4.31
3Robert E. Lucas, Jr. †5.73
4Michael C. Jensen †5.90
5Martin S. Feldstein †5.96
6Alan B. Krueger †6.00
7Edward C. Prescott †11.31
8Christopher Sims †11.66
9Daniel Kahneman †12.52
10Clive W. J. Granger †13.37
11Martin Ravallion †14.53
12Zvi Griliches †15.42
13Stanley Fischer †17.59
14Jean-Jacques Laffont †18.66
15Halbert White †18.85
16Martin L. Weitzman †18.97
17Paul A. Samuelson †20.61
18Emmanuel Farhi †20.77
19Edward Lazear †21.39
20Jacob Mincer †22.10
21Michael McAleer †22.47
22Anthony Barnes Atkinson †22.57
23Sherwin Rosen †25.10
24Mike Wright †25.32
25Gary Charness †25.56
26Julio Rotemberg †27.12
27William Baumol †27.27
28Jonathan Eaton †28.22
29Stephen A. Ross †28.44
30Kenneth J. Arrow †28.58
31Dale Jorgenson †29.46
32Rüdiger Dornbusch (Rudiger Dornbusch) †29.62
33Robert M. Solow †30.33
34Bennett T. McCallum †30.97
35Richard R. Nelson †34.98
36Milton Friedman †35.29
37Jeffrey Gale Williamson †36.75
38Takatoshi Ito †42.13
39Martin Shubik †42.13
40Allan H. Meltzer †43.60
41George J. Stigler †44.70
42Dale T. Mortensen †46.29
43Oliver E. Williamson †48.42
44David Schmeidler †50.19
45J. Peter Neary †50.44
46Mike Tsionas †50.91
47John Roberts †51.28
48James Tobin †54.76
49Bruce D. Smith †54.88
50Edward E. Leamer †58.05
51Alex Cukierman †61.38
52Edmund S. Phelps †61.47
53Gary Chamberlain †62.97
54Philippe Martin †66.83
55Ngo Van Long †70.28
56Stephen Knack †70.48
57John M. Quigley †71.05
58Gert G. Wagner †71.93
59C. A. Knox Lovell †72.90
60Assar Lindbeck †73.63
61S. Rao Aiyagari †75.07
62Richard Arnott †75.13

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
David Backus, Ansgar Belke, Nicholas Crafts, David Dollar, Edward J. Kane, Stephan Klasen, John McMillan, James A. Mirrlees, Wallace E. Oates, Charles I. Plosser, Elisabeth Sadoulet, James P. Smith,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
Thomas Cooley, Harold Demsetz, John Enrico DiNardo, Richard A. Easterlin, Guesnerie Roger, Jack Hirshleifer, John Kagel, Robert John LaLonde, John Leahy, Loet Leydesdorff, Herbert Simon, Finis Welch,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank, Peter F. Christoffersen, Ronald H. Coase, Paul A. David, Steven Klepper, Robert E. Lipsey, Roberto S. Mariano, Harry M. Markowitz, John Morgan, Douglass C. North, Elinor Ostrom, Piet Rietveld,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Patrick L. Bajari, James M. Buchanan, Jacques H. Dreze, Victor A. Ginsburgh, Marvin Goodfriend, Herschel I. Grossman, Philippe Jorion, Ronald I. McKinnon, Merton H. Miller, Franco Modigliani, Agnar Sandmo, T. N. Srinivasan,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Victor R. Fuchs, Peter Gottschalk, Andrew Hughes Hallett, Ronald W. Jones, Nicholas M. Kiefer, Philip Molyneux, Michael Louis Mussa, Roy Radner, Anna Jacobson Schwartz, Hans R. Stoll, Jonathan Temple, Shlomo Yitzhaki,
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